Ned Vizzini Quotes
I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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No two wars are identical.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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Ruler of heaven, Ruler of every people! We knew not, O Christ! that it was thou. If we had known thee, Christ, we should have refrained from thee.
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It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.
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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
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I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
